See No Evil : The Book of Legend by Tiana Laveen

Author:Tiana Laveen [Laveen, Tiana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tiana Laveen
Published: 2022-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Legend had ignored Axel most of the day at work. He’d clocked in and clocked out. Did his damn job. Now he was sitting in an elementary school parking lot, waiting for Desiree. The past few days had been rough. He just wanted to be alone and sort his thoughts, figure out his next move. He felt badly for not giving her his full attention, but his mind wasn’t right, and he didn’t want her to see him that way. How he’d got sucked into showing up for one of her speaking engagements at a local elementary school was still beyond him. Perhaps she’d called at just the right time, when his defenses were down.

She claimed she wanted to speak to him face to face. He wasn’t surprised. There was no way she’d continue to allow his silence to reign over them. She wasn’t an idiot, and she knew him well enough now to sense that he was retreating, putting distance between them. Regardless, he agreed to come, and she suggested they go back to his place afterwards, to have a chat.

He was caught between a rock and a hard place, trapped between a problem and a promise. How did one say, ‘I have an ongoing problem that has almost cost me my life. To make matters worse, my best friend saw something that I kept private, and now, he knows something is up, too.’ The thought of that terrorized him to the point he could barely sleep. Axel wasn’t a stupid man, and there was no way he’d not bring this up again.

What if he told English about his findings, and she helped fill in the missing pieces? Some women seemed to have a sixth sense about such things, and then, Axel would know his secret, too. The very thing that almost destroyed him.

His phone buzzed—a text from Desiree telling him she was inside the school, and what classroom she was speaking in. After chugging his Gatorade, he checked himself in the mirror and removed his Yankees ball cap. He brushed his hair to get his waves poppin’, then got out of his truck.

After being buzzed into the school and going through the necessary checks, he received a visitor name tag and was told where to go. He could hear Desiree speaking, introducing herself inside one of the classrooms. It wasn’t long before he heard children erupt in laughter. She must’ve told them a joke, but I missed part of it. He looked down at his shoes and smiled.

He loved her voice. Her laugh. He missed her scent. Her love. The current distance between them put a hurtin’ on his heart, but he needed the reprieve. His hand surrounding the cold knob, he turned it and stepped in. Desiree introduced him to the class and teacher as her friend, just stopping by to observe and show support.

He gave a quick nod and wave, then took an empty seat on the far-right corner in the first row. As he

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